Crossword-Solution: CONSONANTS
We have 10 clues for the answer “CONSONANTS”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Many letters like B, C, and D | 1 answer |
| Letters, for the most part | 1 answer |
| P, B, and J, for three | 1 answer |
| S and L, e.g. | 1 answer |
| String quintet? | 1 answer |
| Strong majority? | 1 answer |
| The "string sextet" in the five theme answers | 1 answer |
| Alphabetic characters excluding A, E, I, O, U sometimes Y | 1 answer |
| Certain speech sounds that aren't vowels | 1 answer |
| Rd. | 5 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
An inflammatory disease of the skin, characterized by the
presence of redness and itching, an eruption of small vesicles, and the
discharge of a watery exudation, which often dries up, leaving the skin
covered with crusts; -- called also tetter, milk crust, and salt rheum.
Hint 2 anagram
ACEZEM
Hint 3 another clue
eruption
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Sentences with CONSONANTS (5)
Underneath the picture was printed the title, “The Odalisque.” Giddy was under the happy delusion that this title meant something wicked,—there was a wicked look about the consonants,—but Ray, of course, had looked it up, and Giddy was indebted to the dictionary for the privilege of keeping his lady.
Her conception of the character was as heavy and uncompromising as her diction; she bore hard on the idea and on the consonants.
Ann Eliza consulted him about the investment he had recommended, and after it had been settled that he should attend to the matter for her he took up the illustrated volume of Longfellow--for, as the sisters had learned, his culture soared beyond the newspapers--and read aloud, with a fine confusion of consonants, the poem on “Maidenhood.” Evelina lowered her lids while he read.
The Greeks have also {GREEK ncg }, from {GREEK ncg }, I filch, whose radical consonants are the same as those of {GREEK ' cg }, I cover, I conceal.
The Basque, indeed, may be said to be almost a vowel language; the number of consonants employed being comparatively few: perhaps eight words out of ten commence and terminate with a vowel, owing to which it is a language to the highest degree soft and melodious, far excelling in this respect any other language in Europe, not even excepting the Italian.
Quotes with CONSONANTS (3)
I used to think love was two people suckingon the same straw to see whose thirst was stronger, but then I whiffed the crushed walnuts of your nape, traced jackals in the snow-covered tombstones of your teeth. I used to think love was a non-stop saxophone soloin the lungs, till I hung with you like a pair of sneakersfrom a phone line, and you promised to always smellthe rose in my kerosene. I used to think love was terminalpelvic ballet, till you let me jog beside while you pe…
Sometimes, when people speak, I cease listening to their words and zoom in instead on the cadence, and it can seem lovely, and at other times absurd, all this verbiage, these seemingly random consonants clattering on the string that is sound.
If Kumar had his way they would leave for Fiji every year just before Thanksgiving and not return until the New Year rang in and the decorations came down. They would swim with the fishes and lie on the beach eating papaya. On the years they were tired of Fiji they would go to Bali or Sydney or any sunny, sandy place whose name contained an equal number of consonants and vowels.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: CrosSynergy, LAT, NY Sun.
Used 6 times in crossword archives (1998–2022).